Biden’s Economic Message Failed With Voters. Can Harris Do Better?
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Biden’s Economic Message Failed With Voters. Can Harris Do Better?

Politico  

But with Harris’ late entry into the presidential race, that vision has been given a sudden bolt of electricity, and her 2021 pitch is a window into her potential economic agenda if she inherits the Oval Office. “I think she will prioritize these issues in a more authentic and enthusiastic way than we’ve seen before,” said Vicki Shabo, a longtime care policy advocate at the left-leaning think tank New America. Notably, neither Donald Trump nor Biden ever answered a question about what they’d do to make child care more affordable in the disastrous debate that ultimately ended the latter’s presidential run. “One of the questions she always comes back to is ‘Do these policies give people more freedom, choices, and ultimately autonomy over their own lives?’” Rohini Kosoglu, who previously served as domestic policy adviser to the vice president and as chief of staff to Harris when she was in the Senate, told me. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agreed when I asked her about the Democrats’ economic messaging outside the House floor on Tuesday, ticking off three priorities immediately, which she called “the largest pain points”: health care, housing and child care.

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Opinion: If Harris falls short, blame Democrats and the media on this issue
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: If Harris falls short, blame Democrats and the media on this issue

LA Times  

The Harris-Biden economy is “firing on all cylinders” despite the pandemic and policy mess Trump handed them. Here’s one that’s certain to be cited if Kamala Harris loses: the perception among many voters, even those with no love for Donald Trump, that he’d be a better manager of the economy. And yet, just over a week earlier, the Journal reported …

Opinion: Child care is now a central issue in the presidential race. That didn’t happen overnight
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Child care is now a central issue in the presidential race. That didn’t happen overnight

LA Times  

Earlier this month, former President Trump was asked a revealing question at the Economic Club of New York: What would he do about child care? In 1942, union organizer Kitty Ellickson wrote an influential essay on a term for a reality women are still living, the “double day” — doing the majority of care work while also working for pay …

Kamala Harris will struggle to beat Trump on the economy when she lacks a big idea
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Kamala Harris will struggle to beat Trump on the economy when she lacks a big idea

The Telegraph  

The big idea was that she would boost domestic manufacturing as a bulwark against cheap Chinese imports, with a focus on “the sectors that will define the next century”, including biomanufacturing, semiconductors and aerospace engineering. The hope from Ms Harris’s coterie of economic advisers, many of whom were inherited from Mr Biden’s campaign, is that a focus on factory production …

How Kamala Harris defeated the vibecession.
3 months, 2 weeks ago

How Kamala Harris defeated the vibecession.

Slate  

All year, the most troubling issue facing the Democratic Party has been the economy. Harris still has plenty of work to do—the public consensus remains in Trump’s favor—but a positive shift in attitudes is showing up across different measures of economic sentiment. The University of Michigan recorded a one-month improvement of nearly 5 percentage points in the August edition of …

Biden And Harris Both Cite The Economy As A Success — But Voters Believe Harris More
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden And Harris Both Cite The Economy As A Success — But Voters Believe Harris More

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The same economic statistics, essentially the same economic message — the only difference is that Vice President Kamala Harris is having considerably better success selling them to Americans as she runs for president than did her boss and the sitting president, Joe Biden. “Packaged differently and different messenger,” said Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, …

Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here?
4 months ago

Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here?

LA Times  

Children get help from staff during a class at Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach in March. The ‘broken child-care market’ Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen described the child care system in 2021 as “a textbook example of a broken market.” Child-care employees are some of the lowest-paid workers in the economy, at an average of $13.22 an …

Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here's a closer look at what's in them
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here's a closer look at what's in them

Hindustan Times  

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is out with a string of new economic proposals focused on food prices, taxes, housing and medical costs that she says will empower the middle class. She also wants a $40 billion innovation fund — doubling a similar pot of money created by the Biden administration — for businesses building affordable rental housing units. …

Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here's a closer look at what's in them
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here's a closer look at what's in them

Hindustan Times  

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is out with a string of new economic proposals focused on food prices, taxes, housing and medical costs that she says will empower the middle class. Here's a closer look at what's in them {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The plans constitute the first major policy proposals that Harris has released in the nearly four …

Kamala Harris’ Big Economic Speech Breaks With Biden And Continues His Legacy
4 months, 1 week ago

Kamala Harris’ Big Economic Speech Breaks With Biden And Continues His Legacy

Huff Post  

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, arrive to speak about the administration's efforts to lower costs during an event at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Maryland, on Thursday. Susan Walsh via Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris will propose a ban on price gouging by food companies, along with incentives to build new …

Harris to unveil plan for U.S. economy in major policy rollout
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris to unveil plan for U.S. economy in major policy rollout

Raw Story  

Kamala Harris is expected to take on companies unfairly jacking up prices as she sets out her economic agenda Friday in her first major policy announcement as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. Harris's first economic proposal -- to not tax tips -- perplexed some Democrats, who mocked the proposal as a "ploy" for votes after Trump first floated something similar. …

Harris to unveil plan for US economy in major policy rollout
4 months, 1 week ago

Harris to unveil plan for US economy in major policy rollout

New Indian Express  

RALEIGH: Kamala Harris is expected to take on companies unfairly jacking up prices as she sets out her economic agenda Friday in her first major policy announcement as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. The vice president, who replaced President Joe Biden atop the ticket last month, has been carried by surging enthusiasm, bolstered by new government figures this week showing …

Whoever can finally coin an effective economic message could win the White House
4 months, 1 week ago

Whoever can finally coin an effective economic message could win the White House

CNN  

CNN — Voters keep telling pollsters that their economic insecurities are the biggest issue in the 2024 election. “Hard-working Americans are suffering because of the Harris-Biden Administration’s dangerously liberal policies,” Trump’s campaign said in a statement announcing his appearance in Asheville, North Carolina, for a major speech on the economy on Wednesday afternoon. The next day, Harris will deliver a …

Can you afford to take care of your children and parents? Biden revives effort to lower costs
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Can you afford to take care of your children and parents? Biden revives effort to lower costs

Associated Press  

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What’s in Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ framework?
3 years, 1 month ago

What’s in Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ framework?

LA Times  

The White House released a framework Thursday on President Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda, a $1.85-trillion outline that Democrats plan to pass in Congress without any Republican support. Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters that Democrats are “on a path to get this all done.” The White House said the cost of the framework is offset by nearly $2 trillion in …

Biden touts child-care provisions in Democratic spending bill
3 years, 2 months ago

Biden touts child-care provisions in Democratic spending bill

LA Times  

President Biden on Friday implored Congress to pass his party’s major spending bill, saying it would expand access to child care and make the U.S. more competitive in the global economy. “Millions of American parents, especially moms, can’t be part of the workforce because they can’t afford the cost of child care,” Biden said Friday in a library at the …

Biden $3.5T plan tests voter appeal of expansive gov’t role
3 years, 3 months ago

Biden $3.5T plan tests voter appeal of expansive gov’t role

Associated Press  

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Biden’s ‘Families Plan’ would tax rich to help schools, childcare, community college and more
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden’s ‘Families Plan’ would tax rich to help schools, childcare, community college and more

LA Times  

President Biden is proposing an ambitious $1.8-trillion, 10-year plan to subsidize American families’ education, child care, health insurance and job leave costs — an investment in workers intended to complement his earlier call for infrastructure spending and much more, to rebuild an economy hobbled by pandemic and economic inequality. The latest package would be paid for in part by turning …

Column: Why Stockton is a myth-busting case study for Biden’s COVID-19 relief plan
3 years, 9 months ago

Column: Why Stockton is a myth-busting case study for Biden’s COVID-19 relief plan

LA Times  

Speaking from the White House Rose Garden on Friday, President Biden took a moment to reflect on the true impact of his administration’s humongous $1.9-trillion coronavirus relief package, also known as the American Rescue Plan. “This bill puts working people in this nation first.” Rejecting the trickle-down economics favored by Republicans since Ronald Reagan occupied the White House, Biden added: …

Overlooked in Biden’s COVID-19 relief plan: A push to cut child poverty in half
3 years, 10 months ago

Overlooked in Biden’s COVID-19 relief plan: A push to cut child poverty in half

LA Times  

A major anti-poverty effort that would lift prospects for millions of children and close a long-standing gap in the nation’s economic safety net appears headed for approval by Congress, tucked into the COVID-19 relief bill, where it has largely been overshadowed by the debate over the size of stimulus checks. “That’s the way to think about the trade-offs.” A plan …

Assured of victory, Biden-Harris start focusing on public health and economy
4 years, 1 month ago

Assured of victory, Biden-Harris start focusing on public health and economy

Live Mint  

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Kamala Harris promises jobs, affordable care act as part of Biden administration
4 years, 4 months ago

Kamala Harris promises jobs, affordable care act as part of Biden administration

Hindustan Times  

Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic party’s vice-presidential nominee, has said once elected, the Joe Biden administration will create millions of jobs, fight climate change and build an affordable care act among various other strong initiatives for the welfare of Americans. “As Biden-Harris Administration, we will create millions of jobs and fight climate change through a clean energy revolution, bring back …

Joe Biden Makes Caregiving A Central Part Of His New Economic Plan
4 years, 5 months ago

Joe Biden Makes Caregiving A Central Part Of His New Economic Plan

Huff Post  

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks last week in Wilmington, Delaware, about his "Build Back Better" plan. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden rolled out the third part of his economic plan, “Build Back Better,” on Tuesday. “We’re trapped within a caregiving crisis within an economic crisis within a health care crisis,” Biden said. “Now …

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